TripAdvisor Reviews NH Doelen Amsterdam

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What a beautiful city! Most impressive. A rich country, low unemployment, sophisticated and therefore expensive. Had a great dinner last night at an Argentinian restaurant. The meat was wonderful. Today we visited the Rijks museum and gasped at the amazing Rembrants, one as big as a large wall 'the ...

... quirky fact is that most Norwegians don't close the curtains at night so you are looking into everyone's houses after dark. A great night finished with a couple of beers and a red then when leaving the boat we were offered liquorice or at least they called it liquorice which caused fun on the coach on the way home with everyone trying to get rid of whatever it was we were given......definitely not the liquorice we would know. Back to the Hotel with lights out at about ...

... Quinn a triptych of three different flowering trees, Lennon maybe the Sunflowers, me the Flowering Almond Blossoms (painted for his first nephew who founded the museum) & Bill, the interior of his room at Arles. My guess is that that was likely Van Gogh's favorite too as it was where he wrote about being happiest & most at peace. It was his happy place; his man cave. Perhaps after 3 weeks on the road with us, Bill ...

... a great presentation on why roads should be developed in certain ways to accommodate cyclists and how cyclist infrastructure can be pitched to policy makers.

I just wish I was feeling well enough to really take it in! Thank goodness for Adam who swooped in with snacks and juices to refresh us.. I think we were all feeling pretty droopy and tired in the heat... ...

Amsterdam has long daylight hours. Sun is up around 5.30, and does not get dark until 10.30 at night. Its quite strange. And its hard to sleep in.

Over the weekend we have noticed that the types of people in town have changed. There are lots of large groups of young people here to get wasted. The roam the streets in large groups, they are loud, rude, drunk and it makes the ...